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We are pleased to announce that we have closed a 6M round of funding led by TimeWarner Investments, with participation from our current investors RRE Ventures and Union Square Ventures.
TimeWarner leads $6M round of funding in GetGlue
A FUNDAMENTAL shift is taking place in rural Queensland towards social networking sites, made evident from the current flood disaster situation. Rural communities and regions from Condamine on the Western Downs to Theodore in the Dawson Valley, Toowoomba on the Darling Downs and Rockhampton in Central Queensland have taken to Facebook and Twitter to share pictures, stories and information. Thousands of people have joined social networking sites and web pages to help keep their communities together during what is being called Australia's worst flood disaster in living memory.
Social networking sites binding rural communities - State News - Agribusiness and General - General - Queensland Country Life
My husband went to our local library the Cabell County Public Library last week and picked up a library card. If you haven’t been to a library in a long time you maybe surprise how much they have embraced new technology.
Get Free E-Books and Audiobooks at Your Local Library - Geek News Central
Social Today Feels Like Search A Decade Ago: Lots Of Noise And L
A decade ago most of us were using AltaVista or something similar for search. No one was really complaining very much about the huge amount of spam and other noise that cluttered the results because we didn’t know there was a better way. Then Google came along with Page Rank, and had a profound effect on the quality of Internet search.
Windows 7 will be breaking down the doors on October 22.
The new Windows 7 ad is, um, happy | Technically Incorrect - CNE
BBC News - How spam filters dictated Canadian magazine's fate
Its publishers say it was only natural that a Canadian history journal should have been named in honour of the industrious dam-building creature which is the country's national emblem. But in recent times the magazine's attempts to reach a new online audience kept falling foul of spam filters - particularly in schools - because beaver is also a slang term for female genitalia.
Social Curation: What it is, why it's hot right now and 10 sites that do it : Shiny Shiny
Curation used to be something that museums did to Egyptian mummies and Van Goghs, but now all the techies are scrabbling to get into curation, because it is A Hot New Thing in tech world right now.